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Tell us your thoughts on ML.NET, an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework

January 9, 2019 Jan 9, 2019 01/9/19
Bri Achtman
ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework made for .NET developers. .NET developers can use their C# or F# skills to easily integrate custom machine learning into their web, mobile, desktop, gaming, or IoT applications without any prior expertise in developing or tuning machine learning models. ML.NET covers many ...

Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access Build 3707

December 14, 2018 Dec 14, 2018 12/14/18
namrata karnam
We have another early access build to share today! This release includes several accessibility, performance, reliability and stability fixes across the major framework libraries. We will continue to stabilize this release and take more fixes over the coming months and we would greatly appreciate it if you could help us ensure Build 3707 is a ...

Visual Studio 2019 Preview .NET Productivity

December 13, 2018 Dec 13, 2018 12/13/18
KendraHavens
As you hopefully heard, the first preview of Visual Studio 2019 is now available. In this post I’ll cover some of the productivity improvements for .NET developers we’re most excited about. For a complete list, check out the release notes. Regex Language Support Any regular expressions in your C# or Visual Basic files now have syntax ...

.NET Framework December 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

December 11, 2018 Dec 11, 2018 12/11/18
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the December 2018 Security and Quality Rollup. Security CVE-2018-8540 – Windows Remote Code Execution Vulnerability This security update resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft .NET Framework that could allow remote code execution when Microsoft .NET Framework doesn't validate input correctly. The attacker who ...

Take C# 8.0 for a spin

December 5, 2018 Dec 5, 2018 12/5/18
Mads Torgersen
Take C# 8.0 for a spin Yesterday we announced the first preview of both Visual Studio 2019 (Making every developer more productive with Visual Studio 2019) and .NET Core 3.0 (Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1 and Open Sourcing Windows Desktop Frameworks). One of the exciting aspects of that is that you get to play with some of the features ...

Announcing .NET Core 2.2

December 4, 2018 Dec 4, 2018 12/4/18
Rich Lander [MSFT]
We’re excited to announce the release of .NET Core 2.2. It includes diagnostic improvements to the runtime, support for ARM32 for Windows and Azure Active Directory for SQL Client. The biggest improvements in this release are in ASP.NET Core. ASP.NET Core 2.2 and Entity Framework Core 2.2 are also releasing today. You can download and ...

Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.2

December 4, 2018 Dec 4, 2018 12/4/18
Diego Vega
Today we're making the final version of EF Core 2.2 available, alongside ASP.NET Core 2.2 and .NET Core 2.2. This is the latest release of our open-source and cross-platform object-database mapping technology. EF Core 2.2 RTM includes more than a hundred bug fixes and a few new features: Spatial data support Spatial data can be used to ...

.NET Framework November 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup

November 27, 2018 Nov 27, 2018 11/27/18
Tara Overfield
Today, we are releasing the November 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup. Quality and Reliability This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements. CLR SQL WCF Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS bug number provided with each improvement is a unique ID ...

Handling a new era in the Japanese calendar in .NET

November 14, 2018 Nov 14, 2018 11/14/18
Ron Petrusha (MSFT)
Typically, calendar eras represent long time periods. In the Gregorian calendar, for example, the current era spans (as of this year) 2,018 years. In the Japanese calendar, however, a new era begins with the reign of a new emperor. On April 30, 2019, Emperor Akihito is expected to abdicate, which will bring to an end the Heisei era. On the ...